Friday, November 30, 2007

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell; Middle East; Estimated Gas Mileage; The Week in Sports and Your Letters; Holiday Movie Season

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Dirty Bomb Arrest; Memory; Veteran’s Care; Archaeological Playing Cards for the Military; Rick Moody

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Pakistan; The Republican Presidential Race; AIDS work in Zimbabwe; Moose Calls; Blue Moo

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Middle East Peace; No Longer a Glass Ceiling?; Russian Elections; Oprah Effect; Laura Linney

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Middle East; Healthcare Reform; Home Energy Savings; Lott to Step Down; “Slam”

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Retailers/Shoppers and More; Pigeons; Holiday Gadgets; Letters; “Mortified”

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Thursday, November 22, 2007

Musharraf to Step Down as Army Chief; The Marlboro Marine; Pilgrim Poetry; The Mayflower Society; Robin Young’s Trip to Vermont

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

McClellan’s Memoirs; Lead Dangers in the Home; Our War; Coffee and Gender; Leftovers

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Cyclone Relief in Bangladesh; Kurt Eichenwald; Skin Cells and Stem Cells; Plymouth Rock Repairs; Herbs for the Holidays

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Middle East; Health Care; The Reign in Spain; The Return of Absinthe; The Perfect Pie

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Friday, November 16, 2007

Congress Update; Scapegoating; Mike Huckabee’s Appeal; Maria Schneider

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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Airline Security; Hidden Costs of Iraq War; Cloned Monkeys; Major Soccer Cup; Norman Mailer Remembered; Bringing Art to the Third Ward

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Blackwater Investigation; It May Be What’s For Dinner; Who is Going to Care for Them?; Perkins School and Art; Believe it or Not!

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Oil Spill In Southern Russia; Rudy Giuliani; Gun Case; Locavore; Punk 365

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Presidential Politics; The American Idea; Vets Receive The Legion of Honor; Commentary; Juan Luis Guerra

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Political Crisis in Pakistan; Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Interview With Barack Obama; Listener Letters; The Parkers/Nut/Cracked

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Iraq Update; Fort Irwin; Clinton vs. Giuliani; Sports; Requiem For Anne Sexton

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Surging Oil Prices; Iraqis in America; Budget Battle; Pakistan; Shattered Dreams

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Pakistan Update; What is Waterboarding?; Extraordinary Rendition; Too Much Stuff; Money and Genes; Napoleon Revisited

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Monday, November 5, 2007

Turmoil in Pakistan; The Devil in Darfur; Southeast Drought; Managing Pet Pain; “Life of Pi”

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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